Yvonne Rainer: An Interview

Yvonne Rainer trained as a modern dancer in New York and began to choreograph her own work in 1960. When Rainer made her first feature-length film in 1972, she had already influenced the world of dance and choreography for nearly a decade. From the beginning of her film career she inspired audiences to think about what they saw—interweaving the real and fictional, the personal and political, the concrete and abstract in imaginative, unpredictable ways. By 1968, Rainer began to mix live performance with slides and short films. She has been producing slides steadily since 1975, and her films—including A Film About A Woman Who... (1974), Journeys From Berlin/1971 (1980), and The Man Who Envied Women (1985)—have been shown extensively in festivals and alternative venues throughout the world.

Interview by Lyn Blumenthal.